A52: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
November 13, 2023
Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of Richmond’s First Mennonite Church, says, “unlike Aesop’s Fables, Jesus’s parables are not always easy to understand. Some of his parables are downright puzzling.” He finds today’s parable of the talents from...
A28: Trinity Sunday, Year A (2023)
May 29, 2023
Rev. Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of Richmond’s First Mennonite Church begins, “When I was a teenager, I remember seeing…an illustration that showed a huge chasm. On one ridge of the chasm stood a man and on...
A16: The Third Sunday in Lent, Year A (2023)
March 6, 2023
Ryan Ahlgrim, Pastor of First Mennonite Church in Richmond, Virginia, begins this Sunday’s sermon from Exodus 17:1-7 by recounting the story of a hike he and his wife took in the Colorado mountains where they...
A02: The Second Sunday of Advent, Year A (2022)
November 28, 2022
“By the end of the twentieth century, over 130 million people died in war. And then came 9/11. Our country initiated a ‘global war on terror.’…There have been wars in Africa and wars in the...
C35: The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
July 18, 2022
Ryan Ahlgrim preaches that fascinating story from Genesis 18:20-32, about the time Abraham bargained with God in the hope that he would spare the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah “if only ten righteous” were found...